Javier Torices
Javier Torices (Madrid, 1968) Javier Torices paints the sea. Each brushstroke a drop of light, the taste of salt, the play of sand and water, a study in movement. Torices began painting in his father’s workshop with basic oil techniques before switching up to his signature acrylic on wood. In the search for his own […]
Rafael Canogar
Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935) Rafael Canogar is a key figure in the History of Contemporary Spanish Art as a founding member of the El Paso group (1957-1960) and a pioneer and representative of various artistic styles. From a very young age, his aptitude for drawing and oil painting granted him an apprenticeship with Vázquez Díaz […]
Francisco Farreras
Francisco Farreras (Barcelona, 1927 – Madrid, 2021) A key figure in the Spanish abstract avant-garde of the second half of the 20th century. His work is characterized by volumetric play and the physicality of the piece, the sobriety and formal refinement, the austere chromaticism and the incorporation of extra-pictorial materials such as sewn fabrics and […]
Luis Feito
Luis Feito (Madrid, 1929 – 2021) During seven decades of artistic production, Luis Feito positioned himself as one of the great promoters of culture in Spain and an indispensable figure in Contemporary Art History. In 1957 he founded the group El Paso along with other artists such as Saura, Millares and Canogar, with whom he […]
Santiago Picatoste
Santiago Picatoste (Mallorca, 1971) Santiago Picatoste’s pictorial production delves into the psychology of shape and colour and the sensory and aesthetic experience through it. These colourful abstractions that Picatoste groups together under the term Atlas are conceived as metaphorical landscapes in which the artist shows his mastery of colour and traditional painting techniques, and the combination […]
Juan Ugalde
Juan Ugalde (Bilbao, 1958) Ugalde began to exhibit his artworks in the 80s and lived for several years in New York. Between 1989 and 1992 he was part of the Estrujenbank artistic collective, dedicated to a politically committed art, with the artist Patricia Gadea and the poet Dionisio Cañas, among others. His solo work leads […]